Artistic Polar Bear Challenge: 100 Ways In 100 Days. #87 - Pumice Gel

Alright, I admit to being a Textureaholic.  There's just something about the depth and interest in textures that make me all gooey inside.  Today we're going really textured.  I loaded a piece of illustration board with Golden's Pumice Gel mixed with matte gel for adhesion.

This stuff even sounded strange.  When scooping it out of the jar, it made a sound like you hear when pulling your boot out of deep, sticky mud.  It sort of has the look. workability and structure of coarse beach sand.  I loaded it up on the board fairly thickly.

Once dry, I washed the whole thing with thinned fluid acrylic for the background color, then painted the bear with a drybrush technique.

Pumice Gel Bear

I could really put on my mad scientist cap with this stuff, adding it in varying degrees to paints and gels.  So much fun to have....so little time.